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11-07-2006 (Paris) UNESCO launches Young Digital Creators Educator’s Kit
Enabling young people to using ICT creatively to address global challenges of development, cultural diversity and inter-cultural dialogue is the aim of UNESCO’s Young Digital Creators Educator’s Kit that is now online available.

10-07-2006 (Apia) Fiji young media producers’ workshop on HIV/AIDS
Young people aged between 24-28 years representing Government, NGOs and the University of the South Pacific, were trained to be film documentary producers and to produce two short documentaries addressing HIV/AIDS issues in Fiji.

07-07-2006 (New Delhi) Voices of people with disabilities
Eight people with disabilities now have an opportunity to voice their issues using community multimedia centres (CMCs) in Nepal after a recent training workshop on audio production and new technologies.

28-06-2006 (Paris) Indians learn to read and write with the help of ICT
In a Community Learning Centre in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu state, India, a grandmother named Anu waits with a CD-Rom clutched in her hand. Visitors have gathered in the Centre for a workshop about a UNESCO project that uses ICT to enhance literacy education.

23-06-2006 (Paris) Arriving at the Electronic Frontier
Achieving universal primary education in countries jumpstarts secondary education. However, many regions find themselves without the resources needed to meet this demand. A UNESCO program using Open and Distance Learning (ODL) systems is giving secondary school students access to the world of learning.

22-06-2006 (Montevideo) Media, development and poverty reduction on agenda of UNESCO Seminar in Uruguay
Journalists, media entrepreneurs, government and civil society representatives, academics, and students met last week in UNESCO’s Montevideo Office to analyze and evaluate the situation of media, development and poverty reduction in Uruguay and the region, and to make recommendations for UNESCO’s action in this context.

21-06-2006 (Montevideo) UNESCO supported telecentre for the blind opened in Uruguay
The Juan Antonio Lavalleja Public Library of Minas, the capital of the department of Lavalleja in Uruguay, hosts since last week a telecentre for visually impaired. The two room premises in the House of Culture with state-of-the art equipment was opened on 16 June.

20-06-2006 (Addis Ababa/Pretoria) New virtual reality-based learning approach in Africa
UNESCO, together with the Naledi3d Factory of South Africa has recently embarked on a new collaborative project to take the concept of the Interactive3d Learning Object to a more integrated level.

15-06-2006 (Paris) Elizabeth Longworth takes on new function in UNESCO
Elizabeth Longworth takes up her new office today as Executive Director of the Office of UNESCO Director-General after just under a three year term as Director of UNESCO's Information Society Division and Secretary of the Organization’s Information for All Programme.

14-06-2006 (Paris) Amsterdam named “World Book Capital 2008”
Amsterdam has been chosen as the 2008 “World Book Capital” by a selection committee, comprised of representatives of UNESCO and the three main international organizations representing the book industry, that met at UNESCO on 8 June.